by Karen Creamer | Feb 1, 2018 | Being BRAVE, Catching women being brave, Interviews, The BRAVE Interviews
Welcome to this month’s interview with my good friend, Barbara Ryland!
My Brave Thing
As a child growing up, I had no father.
My parents were divorced when I was an infant, and my father moved far away. I had no contact with him, with any of his siblings or with my paternal grandparents. After I married and had my own children, it became very important to me to meet my paternal grandmother who was in her 80’s. I wanted so much to know her before she died. So I made plans to go to Gulfport, Mississippi, where she lived and where my father had grown up. I had hopes of meeting him, also, but he was living in Texas, and I was unsure if he would be able to meet me in Mississippi. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Jan 8, 2018 | Clarity, Comfort, Connection, health
It’s hard to imagine the unthinkable, the loss of a child.
Unless you don’t have to imagine it.
Unless it has happened to you.
Then you don’t have to imagine it. You are living with it every single day.
Two women who have been through want to help others who have also experienced this unfathomable loss get through it, too.
“Laura Diehl is known for extending a light of hope to bereaved parents. Through her writing, speaking, and coaching, she walks with grieving parents in their place of darkness, without judgment or shame, to learn how to live a life of meaning and purpose again. Laura found herself in a place of suffocating darkness after the death of her daughter, Becca, with no one to turn to for help in navigating out of the deep pit of grief. Today, as a bereaved mom living a life of fulfillment, purpose, and destiny, Laura invests her time in helping grieving parents journey from a place of brokenness to becoming a re-purposed vessel in a way that honors the life of their child, instead of living in the shadow of their child’s death.” Laura Diehl’s books are available here and wherever books are sold. Keep reading
by Karen Creamer | Jan 7, 2018 | Affirmations, health
I have had one of the worst colds of my life this winter, and I don’t say that lightly.
I never get sick!!
(So, wait, I guess I can’t say that anymore…)
At the first sign of illness, I start breaking out all my artillery for prevention and treatment, in case any symptoms persist or try to sneak through my fire wall. Affirmations: I am healthy! I feel great! Acting ‘as if’ I was well: I continued with my usual routine, including a book selling event that I absolutely should have stayed home from. I took some Airborne. I thought ‘well’ thoughts. Keep reading
Karen Creamer
